There, I said it.
I know you(Bioware) want me to pick Reyes, and made her one of the few killable characters in the game, but she's straight with me and the world, has a beautifully complicated backstory, and both the game and her will allow me to meet her snark for snark.
Sloane great pick
@PandaTar wrote:
She likes unicorns. ❤️
Reyes doesn't. 💔
And when she stumbles on your jaded line that is *so* unexpected. The Reyes "but I wanted to be" is *SO* cheesy.
@jpcerutti1 wrote:
@arthurh3535 wrote:
Weekly or monthly taxes for the privilege of living on the mountain?
Yeah, no.Maybe they should ask the Nexus for a pickup?
Ah... But after Exiles rebelled against Nexus (which *was* complex, true) they were given shuttles, arms, food, water, and other essentials. They were not exiled empty handed, even though they actually killed some of the Nexus loyalists. Actually, they were also given another choice: they were offered to be returned to cryo, and promised a chance for a fair trial after situation is back to normal.
What does Sloane give to paupers who are not paying his "taxes"? A lot of hard smacks, some broken bones, then she takes all they have left, and then she throws them out to a badlands where her own lackeys mistreat them *even more*.
And Nexus was actually giving a pickup to some of the Exiles - just please replay Vetra's loyalty mission again...
@Kondaru wrote:
@jpcerutti1 wrote:
@arthurh3535 wrote:
Weekly or monthly taxes for the privilege of living on the mountain?
Yeah, no.Maybe they should ask the Nexus for a pickup?
Ah... But after Exiles rebelled against Nexus (which *was* complex, true) they were given shuttles, arms, food, water, and other essentials. They were not exiled empty handed, even though they actually killed some of the Nexus loyalists. Actually, they were also given another choice: they were offered to be returned to cryo, and promised a chance for a fair trial after situation is back to normal.
What does Sloane give to paupers who are not paying his "taxes"? A lot of hard smacks, some broken bones, then she takes all they have left, and then she throws them out to a badlands where her own lackeys mistreat them *even more*.
And Nexus was actually giving a pickup to some of the Exiles - just please replay Vetra's loyalty mission again...
If you don't want to pay to stay in Kadara you are made to leave Kadara? Even a hotel will make you leave if you're not going to pay... and they won't station armed guards around the perimeter. Bioware went all Australia with the colonization. She's not eating them or making them slave labor.
Add: Don't pretend Reyes runs it any differently. I think you can even find a datapad if he becomes boss-by-proxy that lets you know that is just one more thing he tries to be sneaky about.
@jpcerutti1 wrote:
If you don't want to pay to stay in Kadara you are made to leave Kadara? Even a hotel will make you leave if you're not going to pay... and they won't station armed guards around the perimeter. Bioware went all Australia with the colonization. She's not eating them or making them slave labor.
I have never heard about hotels that respond to guests without money with:
a) beating them until unconsciousness
b) depriving them of all their possession
c) throwing them out of the boat in the middle of the ocean
d) sponsoring a shark farm in the place where they are throwing those guests out of the boat.
I do understand idea of taxes - I really do. But what Sloane does is not about taxes - it is about abusing and mistreating the poor. And speaking about "fair new world" at the same time.
Also... Somehow Reyes/Collective/Angara are able to afford all those guests without expecting any fees, right? ;-)
Kondaru wrote:I have never heard about hotels that respond to guests without money with:
a) beating them until unconsciousness
b) depriving them of all their possession
c) throwing them out of the boat in the middle of the ocean
d) sponsoring a shark farm in the place where they are throwing those guests out of the boat.
I do understand idea of taxes - I really do. But what Sloane does is not about taxes - it is about abusing and mistreating the poor. And speaking about "fair new world" at the same time.
Also... Somehow Reyes/Collective/Angara are able to afford all those guests without expecting any fees, right? ;-)
Actually, the big one was water, but no one ever talks about the fact that you made most of the water fairly potable (or at least a lot more diluted).
The water purifier thing didn't make a lot of sense to me, actually. Turn it into steam (maybe in multiple steps) and re-condense it. Energy intensive, but probably not amazingly so.
@arthurh3535 wrote:
Kondaru wrote:I have never heard about hotels that respond to guests without money with:
a) beating them until unconsciousness
b) depriving them of all their possession
c) throwing them out of the boat in the middle of the ocean
d) sponsoring a shark farm in the place where they are throwing those guests out of the boat.
I do understand idea of taxes - I really do. But what Sloane does is not about taxes - it is about abusing and mistreating the poor. And speaking about "fair new world" at the same time.
Also... Somehow Reyes/Collective/Angara are able to afford all those guests without expecting any fees, right? ;-)
Actually, the big one was water, but no one ever talks about the fact that you made most of the water fairly potable (or at least a lot more diluted).
The water purifier thing didn't make a lot of sense to me, actually. Turn it into steam (maybe in multiple steps) and re-condense it. Energy intensive, but probably not amazingly so.
Not so bad when you consider you have to generate power anyway and a byproduct you have to deal with regardless is heat.
@arthurh3535 wrote:
Actually, the big one was water, but no one ever talks about the fact that you made most of the water fairly potable (or at least a lot more diluted).
The water purifier thing didn't make a lot of sense to me, actually. Turn it into steam (maybe in multiple steps) and re-condense it. Energy intensive, but probably not amazingly so.
It could be quite dangerous - like acid rains, You know. I would probably try cryo-condensation instead. And all the same I guess the big issue was the infrastructure - whatever You are using on the water, the equipment will degrade fast.
But I do agree that there should be easier ways to solve the issue, like neutralizing the sulfur, and THEN filtering the water - or something. Heck, You can even synthesize water in a number of ways, and Your omni-tool is able to produce guns and armors from raw elements... ;-)
@Kondaru wrote:
@arthurh3535 wrote:Actually, the big one was water, but no one ever talks about the fact that you made most of the water fairly potable (or at least a lot more diluted).
The water purifier thing didn't make a lot of sense to me, actually. Turn it into steam (maybe in multiple steps) and re-condense it. Energy intensive, but probably not amazingly so.
It could be quite dangerous - like acid rains, You know. I would probably try cryo-condensation instead. And all the same I guess the big issue was the infrastructure - whatever You are using on the water, the equipment will degrade fast.
But I do agree that there should be easier ways to solve the issue, like neutralizing the sulfur, and THEN filtering the water - or something. Heck, You can even synthesize water in a number of ways, and Your omni-tool is able to produce guns and armors from raw elements... ;-)
I have to digress just a moment. I want to yell at the creators of Drack's loyalty mission to Elaadan's moon.It starts with it raining on you. If you have such a water shortage that 500 gallons is all you have for your colony, it would pay to go to that moon and just grab the rain water runoff...
>_<
arthurh3535 wrote:I have to digress just a moment. I want to yell at the creators of Drack's loyalty mission to Elaadan's moon.It starts with it raining on you. If you have such a water shortage that 500 gallons is all you have for your colony, it would pay to go to that moon and just grab the rain water runoff...
>_<
Well, they are Krogan.
But now that we know this, who's dumber? The Krogan for not using the water or Sloane for walking into the most obvious trap in the universe?
